Word: bucharest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today in his briefcase Foreign Minister Delbos carries the word to Warsaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, and to Prague that the outlet for Germany will be found principally in redistribution of colonies. This welcome news is the result of a conference Monday and Tuesday in London which would up in a happy statement that England would stand by France in her alliance with the Little Entente. Simultaneously "trial balloons" ascended and hints were let slip that in the near future a general conference of Colonial Powers would be held for some sort of a reshuffle of Germany's old possessions...
...diplomatic service the career of James Theodore Marriner followed an orthodox course. He was third secretary at Stockholm, proceeded methodically to second secretary at Bucharest and, after spending three years in Washington as secretary in the Division of Western European Affairs, at the State Department, became first secretary at Berne. From 1927 to 1931 he headed the Division of Western European Affairs. In 1931 he was made counselor of the Embassy in Paris, soon became better known to U. S. travelers, including members of the Roosevelt family, than many members of the Embassy staff. In the meantime he had acquired...
...Nahlin came last week as a crashing fact to back up years of rumor that "Mme Lupescu is the shrewdest money-maker in Rumania." She is said to have got her working capital from people who wanted things wheedled out of Carol II, later was reported branching out into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw contracts. Mme Lupescu for years was in mortal terror of assassination by Rumania's anti-Semitic Iron Guard, more recently has been famed as its "largest contributor." Last...
...latest physicians were scientists of unimpeachable integrity, their communique did much to explode one of the wildest palace yarns to emerge in Europe since the War. The illness of Queen Marie happened to precede the expulsion of slack-chinned former Prince Nicholas from the royal family and from Rumania. Bucharest gossips, who enjoy exercising the most heated imaginations in the world, were thus encouraged to circulate the following melodrama...
Final break between King Carol and his violent-tempered brother (who was once accused of kicking a taxi driver in the pit of the stomach) occurred at a family dinner party in Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace where King Carol was making one more effort to persuade Prince Nicholas to abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor...